EARTH
4Amazoness Sage
Archetype:
Amazoness
ATK:
1400
DEF:
700
View:
3513
At the end of the Damage Step, if this card attacked and is still on the field: Target 1 Spell/Trap your opponent controls; destroy that target.
Amazoness Sage — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 51 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 53 · Deck: 50 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Board breaker / Going-second · Secondary: Removal
Why it scores here
Amazoness Sage is a Level 4 EARTH Warrior whose only effect is to destroy one Spell/Trap your opponent controls, and only after it attacks and survives to the end of the Damage Step. It converts that attack into a one-for-one answer to backrow, not into board presence or card advantage. Its 1400 ATK and 700 DEF earn nothing by themselves, and the score is held down by the attack condition and by its inability to touch monsters. It is cheap and clean to run, with 30 of 400 sampled decks playing it across 10 archetypes, which supports its accessibility and deckbuilding scores but does not by itself prove strength.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 55 | Level 4 normal-summonable body played in 30 sampled decks across 10 archetype IDs; no searcher or combo-start data is supplied to confirm a reliable route to it (observed deck frequency, inferred route). |
| Combo & Conversion | 30 | Its effect is a single destruction and produces no board on its own; no combo examples exist to show it converting into a larger board (inferred from text, combo data has 0 appearances). |
| Resource Economy | 40 | Destroys one Spell/Trap on attack but has no GY refuel or recursion, so the trade is roughly even at best (inferred from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 45 | Reliable removal of Spell/Trap cards, but it needs the Sage to attack and survive the Damage Step, and it cannot hit monsters (verified from card text). |
| Material Utility | 55 | A Level 4 non-Tuner Warrior body that remains usable as Level 4 material even after its effect is negated (verified from card stats; material use itself is inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | Its 700 DEF and attack-dependent trigger make it vulnerable to monster removal and battle-based interruption; no interaction-resistance evidence is supplied (inferred from text and stats). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 85 | Runs 1.23 copies on average with a maximum of 2 across the sample, with no garnet, lock or brick cost (observed from deck data). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Board breaker / Going-second profile, single role (no secondary blend). Intrinsic ≈ 53, Deck ≈ 50, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Attack-triggered Spell/Trap destruction gives a repeatable backrow answer when the attack connects
- Level 4 normal-summonable body that is easy to fit into Amazoness-style lists
- Clean to run: near one copy per deck, no garnet or lock cost
- Present across 10 archetype IDs in the sample, so it is not tied to a single home
Weaknesses
- Only hits Spell/Trap cards, never monsters
- Needs to attack and survive to the end of the Damage Step, so it is weak on defence and when a battle is blocked
- 1400 ATK / 700 DEF body is easy to remove by battle or card effect
- Combo data is absent, so its conversion value is unproven
Counters / choke points
- Stopping the attack or removing the Sage before the Damage Step ends prevents the destruction
- Monster-based removal or a battle-blocking effect denies the trigger entirely
Best use
Post-attack Spell/Trap removal in a Going-second or board-breaking role. Decks: Amazoness lists (the Sage appears in 8 + 4 + 4 sampled decks across the Amazoness archetype IDs). Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Level 4 EARTH Warrior Effect Monster, 1400 ATK / 700 DEF, Amazoness archetype (card text); Effect destroys one Spell/Trap after attacking and surviving the Damage Step (card text); Present in 30 of the sampled decks, all in the main deck, average 1.23 copies (deck data)
- Observed: Partners with Amazoness Princess, Amazoness Queen and Amazoness Onslaught in 60–63% of its decks (deck data); Spread across 10 archetype IDs and 4 gameplay types (deck data)
- Inferred: Its removal value depends on attacking, which makes it a board-breaker role rather than a true removal card; Level 4 body is usable as material even when its effect is negated
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token, assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so archetype inclusion % is inferred from the 30-deck sample only